British spies in WW2: everything you wanted to know
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The Assassin's Pen and the Exploding Rat
The writer's favourite gadget is the assassin pen, which has a sharp knife in it. The exploding rat was made for SOE and would be filled with plastic explosives. Germans spent most of the war looking for these dead rats to use as bombs.
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